blinn

Shading that incorporates ambient, diffuse, and specular properties, where specular highlights are calculated using the Blinn-Phong formula.

Declaration

static let blinn: SCNMaterial.LightingModel

The Blinn-Phong approximation of real-world reflectance calculates the color of a point on a surface using the following formula:

color = ambient * al + diffuse * max(0, dot(N, L)) + specular * pow(max(0, dot(H, N)), shininess)

Some terms refer to the material’s properties: ambient, diffuse, specular, and shininess. The other terms are as follows:

al: The sum of all ambient lights in the scene (a color).
N: The surface normal vector at the point being shaded, as supplied by the geometry’s vertex data, interpolated between vertices, and possibly modified by the material’s normal property.
L: The (normalized) vector from the point being shaded to the light source.
H: A vector halfway between the light vector L and the (normalized) eye vector E (the vector from the point being shaded to the viewer), calculated using the formula H = normalize(L + E).